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We have 3 departmental PhD studentships available for 2027 entry, alongside opportunities to apply for ESRC funding. I'm keen to support applications relating to cognitive mechanisms of word learning over adolescence. Please share and get in touch if interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 28/09/2026

reminder, if you present, in psychology say, findings that "wow a neural network simulated this task" it's not actually surprising (they are function approximators) nor is the surprise compatible with believing neural networks can learn any mapping (they cannot) — confused? see below

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Mal Shah @compositiomality.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Accepted to Linguistic Inquiry! I argue on syntactic grounds “some of the apples” is really “some apples of the apples” with NP-ellipsis. This explains which quantifiers and which modifiers (adjectives, prepositional phrases, relative clauses) can’t appear. Preprint: ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/009...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A lot of people are not well right now: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This is an excellent time to de-escalate conflicts and to lean into patience. This is true in our personal lives and also (maybe especially) online when it's overwhelmingly strangers crashing into each other.

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Roope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · 27/09/2026

Did you know humans around the world have made string figures (cat's cradles)? And even stranger, the exact same figures to surprising degrees of complexity. In the thread below, we try to unravel this mystery:

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fresh new pots now online! www.roseschmits.com Free UK shipping, worldwide shipping available

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I would like to highlight two postdoctoral positions in the project Neuronal Mechanisms of Reading in Children Using OPM-MEG at the University of Oxford: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit… my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit�� Deadline 30 Sep.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 24/09/2026

*extremely tired voice*AI agents don't "go rogue". They are not sentient; they don't have agency. They work within guardrails set by humans. If the humans are so shit at building secure sandboxes for the agents to work within, that's on the humans. Stop using this framing.

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We are hiring a new director for our brain imaging center at Northeastern University (Boston) in the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health! Please spread the word. I'm on the search committee happy to speak with anyone who is interested. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

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Associate Professor/Professor and Director, Northeastern University Biomedical Imaging Center

About the Opportunity About Northeastern: Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experientia...

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Giovanni D’Angelo @giodang.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#lipidtime: It's a lipid universe. Today in Nature we publish the Lipid Brain Atlas, the first map of membrane lipid composition across the entire mouse brain, a layer of organisation that cell-type and transcript maps had left out. #lipidomics #neuroscience #BrainAtlas

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New tenure track position call for cognitive science at UCSD: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04633

apol-recruit.ucsd.edu

Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Its the ol’ smooth jazz pottery roundup ✨ All these pots currently available for purchase on my website www.roseschmits.com Free UK shipping, worldwide available

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

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Boxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 20/09/2026

a legitimate subfield of computer science

A bingo card, headed: bullshit mechinterp manuscript bingo
The free space square in the centre says: smuggled priors

The squares are:
Prompt variations produced by LLM itself
LLM-as-a-judge
Tiny model, massive overclaim
We’re not saying it’s X, just that it’s functionally X!
Cherry-picked SAE latents
KV cache mysticism
Ablation as sole proof of mechanism
Prompt hacking
Circular reasoning justified by heatmap
“Peer reviewed” by Anthropic’s Claude
Automated post-hoc feature labelling
Superposition handwaving
Funded by an obscure AI safety outfit
Labelled feature is probably just tracking punctuation
Logit lens fanfiction
An intricately contrived roleplay scenario
Model fine-tuned for the test
“implications for model welfare”
Clever Hans effect is mistaken for situational awareness
Cognitive science terminology used, just as a metaphor of course!
Purported circuit only works half the time
Teleological language
Hyper-specific coefficient tuning
Inconvenient results buried in appendix

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you gotta buy my pots cause actually they may one day grow to be Emrakul The Promised End and destroy all of humanity thats how powerful and important they are. Every time i throw a pot i am tempting eldritch power. Invest now in pots

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Esther Mondragón @e-mondragon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

King of the magic fountain!

A tiny snail on top of a solar fountain seemly drinking

A tiny snail on top of a solar fountain.

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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We have created an EXTREMELY dangerous hamburger. It is so delicious, we are losing control. If trends continue, everyone could become obese. We demand regulation, and a pause on the development of EVEN MORE delicious hamburgers! Only licensed restaurants may sell them. -OpenMeat Safety Team

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

LLMs are not search engines. They are mathematical hallucinators by default. Any 'search' you do, you'll have to double check anyway, which defeats the purpose of using them in the first place. Search engines can match faster and better because that's what they are designed to do

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So how about this for a "pause AI" proposal: "pause credulous AI reporting". No more media about "breakthroughs" or "rogue agent swarms" or ... UNLESS and UNTIL that media demands the actual empirical evidence and/or focuses on the motivations of & harms by these companies.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So then ordinary people, who all have plenty to worry about now tyvm, pick up some generalized anxiety about "AI" and meanwhile policymakers are introducing nonsense bills regulating unicorns (I mean "AGI"). >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

None of that is "empirical evidence" unless and until the public (and independent, non-AI-enthralled scientists) can review all inputs (including all training data, prompts, etc) and all actual outputs. >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently. >>

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Deadline 16th September: Expressions of interest to MPI for Psycholinguistics + Radboud U., research group lead + permanent assistant prof. www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

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Expressions of interest sought re. Open topic Call for Max Planck Research Group Leaders and permanent Assistant Professor positions | Max Planck Institute

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 04/09/2026

I really enjoyed the book and I have already cited it in the new version of this with @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social (sorry did not update the version, but you can probably guess where because I mention PP): Are Neurocognitive Representations 'Small Cakes'? philpapers.org/rec/GUEANR

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 04/09/2026

I read this over the summer — great work! @kathrynnave.eurosky.social really has some amazing analyses and great points. I really recommend this for anybody who wonders what FEP is within psychology / cognitive science and why many completely ignore it, while others seem to only care about it.

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Denver Museum of Nature & Science @denvermuseumns.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Crinoids are animals that are related to starfish and sand dollars. When these crinoids were alive, they used their feather-like arms to filter plankton from seawater. This limestone fossil slab was collected in 1975. The fossils were painstakingly exposed using small air-powered tools.

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 03/09/2026

We are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. Please apply or forward to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor, Psychology - Stanford University, California, United States

The Department of Psychology at Stanford University is seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. In addition ...

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is hiring! Focus on social cognition, broadly construed. Come be my colleague :) I am not on the search committee but happy to talk about the campus, environment, careers, etc any time. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10411

recruit.ap.uci.edu

Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Marc Coutanche @marccoutanche.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We are recruiting an Assistant Professor in Cog Neuro/Cog Psych to join us at Rice! Please spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/192080

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things. A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.

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Kitty (now Doggie Dog) @bathematician.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Kind of a long title but this movie sounds wild

A cinema billboard showing
THE BRUTALIST
BABYGIRL
NOSFERATU
FROM GROUND ZERO

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

ouroshrimpos

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

How doth the hamburgler steale hamburgeres? Sleighte of hamb

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Lauren Hall-Lew (she/her) @lhlew.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I said what I said 😅

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One of a set of 32 astronomical star-chart cards known as Urania’s Mirror or a View of the Heavens published in around 1825. Each card is pierced with holes corresponding in size to the magnitudes of the brightest stars. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/u...

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

is data singular or plural

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Cogan Lab @coganlab.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

How does a speech plan become fluent movement? In Nature Human Behaviour, led by Kumar Duraivel: Intracranial recordings reveal how hierarchical speech plans become continuous motor sequences across planning, articulation, and monitoring networks. doi.org/10.1038/s415... 1/5

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Distinct neural processes link speech planning and execution - Nature Human Behaviour

Direct recordings from the human brain reveal a hierarchy in planning to speak, with neural activity organizing whole syllables before the individual sounds that compose them are sequenced.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Dancing Skeletons — Kawanabe Kyōsai, ca. 1880 Painted silk 136 x 66 cm www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

Description from the British Museum:
"Painting, hanging scroll. Skeletons dancing; one skeleton seated on grave marker and playing shamisen beneath torn paper lantern; other skeletons, some with bamboo swords at their sides, others with towels bound around their foreheads, enjoying music and dancing. Ink and colour on silk. Signed and sealed."

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

'algorithm' has 2 meanings: 1. a step-by-step procedure with finite description that halts in finite time 2. an algorithm *for* a function/problem LLMs can fail for both definitions. The first because of human-in-the-loop, the second because they are heuristics at best (no guarantees)

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Ausarchosaur @ausarchosaur.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Looks like a seahorse, but it’s not. It evolved the same body plan independently! journaloflostspecies.org/index.php/jl...

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

not to be confused with quesadilla

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Thomas Serre @thomasserre.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Very much looking forward to welcoming a new colleague! We're hiring at both ranks — the senior (Associate/Full) search is open too, applications due Oct 15: apply.interfolio.com/190696

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026

🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....

Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist.

There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.

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Colin Phillips @colinphillips.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We are recruiting a lab manager for our new Psycholinguistics Lab in Oxford! Good opportunity for young researchers, e.g., post-bac/masters. Open to applicants from the UK or abroad. Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Photo of a statue outside Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre

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